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Is it the actual original Angry Birds? (Now renamed "Red's First Flight" or something like that)

IIRC they did this renaming switcheroo to get people into the freemium+ads-supported version. The original was undercutting their new monetization.

(Which don't get me wrong, is exceedingly scummy already. "The original was undercutting their new monetization", AKA people prefer to not have ads and annoying freemium if they know the game is solid)

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This made me look to see if I could find the original Angry Birds in my App Store purchase history. It's there, but its been renamed "AB Classic" – I couldn't find it by searching, so I had to scroll a loooong way down the list of apps until I found it near the bottom. Its position in the list was accompanied by other such classics as Flight Control, Doodle Jump and geoDefense, none of which have (or had) ads. I don't install or play games on my phone anymore.

+10 for "I don't install or play games on my phone anymore."

Same here. I gave me this rule: No games on phones or private work computers, as well as no crap like Facebook. I might expand this rule to other non-productivity apps as well, since gaming on a phone is a time drainer and distractor for me.

Bonus points if you have blocked your preferred web distractions at the hosts file level. I still catch myself about once a week mindlessly logging into something while waiting for a process longer than 10 seconds to finish.

"Nuh-uh." - Hosts file

https://www.howtogeek.com/27350/beginner-geek-how-to-edit-yo...

Forgot about this one. Nice tip.

this can be done with NetGuard (Android) or apps like AdGuard Pro (iOs). Both function as VPNs and allow DNS filtering (load custom host lists).

Essential software and should be the first app to be installed on a device.

I’ve started to mainly focus on games that have Ana drive community years after release - often indicated by an open source implementation of the engine. Thing the various source ports of Doom, OpenWM, OpenTTD, etc.

RIP Flight Control. I miss that game a lot.

Me too. It was so so good.

> AB Classic

Wow. Couldn't even leave the words Angry Birds in the title.

You need SEO for this crap.

Search engine obfuscation.

Netflix's games have no ads and have no annoying pop-ups... it's the only stuff I download for my kids to play with. Everything else is cluttered with too much junk for my liking.

On iOS Apple Arcade is pretty good also. No ads or other nonsense.

> Flight Control

I've yet to find a good substitute for this game. Nothing else is paced quite right.

Apple Arcade still has a nice Angry Birds version with zero ads or gambling mechanics or any other nonsense.

If it was not for Apple Arcade, I probably would restrict my kids to playing Kerbal Space Program or the few games I know that do not have all that garbage.

Apple Arcade is perfect for kids, you can let them install any game from there and you can be a 100% sure there's no predatory in-app purchases, subscriptions or ads.

The Netflix games are trying the same approach. Basically they have games on the app stores but you can't play them without an active Netflix subscription.

Is there something like this for Android?

There's Google Play Pass.

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